milk

Obs.

DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

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in Indian parlance, rum.

Quotations

1775

What they most long for, is a taste of his rum, which they uniformly denominate milk.

1802

. . . the Indians were anxiously awaiting me, to taste the "new milk," as they generally call rum when speaking in a ceremonious style.